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Recent Votes

• Forget the Mortgage, I'm Paying My Credit Card Bill

  Source: finance.yahoo.com

  Amid high unemployment and sliding home prices, a growing number of struggling consumers are doing what was once considered unthinkable: paying their credit card bills instead of their mortgages.

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• The Troubled (Black) History of the Oscars

  Source: theroot.com

  In the 61-year time span from 1940-2001, only five other African Americans—Sidney Poitier, Lou Gossett, Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and Cuba Gooding (can we put an asterisk next to this one?)—won the distinct gold statuette in the prestigious acting categories.

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• U.S. Makes Play to Develop High Speed Rail - projects could help country catch up with Europe and Asia

  Source: US News & World Report

  High-speed rail has long struck transportation buffs as a natural fit for the United States, with its dispersed population, vast open spaces, and national obsession with technological progress. Yet the nation lags far behind much of Europe and Asia in terms of high-speed trains.

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• 'Idol' producers want Howard Stern to replace Cowell

  Source: New York Post

  "American Idol" producers are eager to hire Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell as the show's tough-talking judge, sources tell Page Six. An insider said that producers of the hit Fox show say Stern, America's highest-paid radio personality, is their top choice to take over fro …

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• Pressed on Fox News 'Narrative' by Jon Stewart, O'Reilly Blames Hannity, Beck

  Source: Raw Story

  O'Reilly's defense of Beck: He's an 'everyman' who 'sits on a barstool' and 'spouts'

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